THQ Takes June

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NPD reports that THQ was the number two software publisher in June. Smoking.

By IGN Staff

The wild kids at THQ (why wild? Just think SpongeBob SquarePants) today announced that in the month of June, it was ranked the number two software publisher in software sales, according to NPD Funworld. THQ was also the number one third-party publisher of handheld videogames year-to-date. While THQ ranked number two in sales for the sole month of June, Activision ranked as the number two software publisher for the April-June 2002 quarter.

The games that caused the ruckus? Well, THQ had quite a summer party, in fact. The laundry list of games include WWE WrestleMania X8 (which was the number one selling game on GameCube in June), Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (Game Boy Advance), Scooby Doo! Night of 100 Frights (PS2), MX Superfly (PS2, GameCube), and Tetris Worlds (GameCube, Xbox). (Just for the record, we here at IGN are willing to bet good hard cash it wasn't Tetris Worlds that pushed THQ over the edge to the number two spot).

"We are extremely pleased with the performance of our recent releases and our market position in June as the #2 software publisher as we enter the back half of the year," said Alison Locke, executive vice president, North American publishing, THQ. "With recent hardware price cuts and the rapid adoption of next generation consoles by the mass market gamer, we're seeing some great momentum for our mass market brands as we prepare to enter the sweet spot of the console cycle."

Here's hoping that THQ keeps up the good work with the upcoming games Pride, Red Faction 2 and Alter Echo.